Equanimity Philosophy and Practice

Author(s): Nanesh Acharya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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old age. For, his attention is focussed to body only and not to soul. Soul never gets old. If right determinative intellect keeps awake, it (soul) remains ever young.
Where delusion is there deception (perplexity) associates. When delusion sullies thought, vision automatically becomes defiled. A jaundiced eye sees all colours as yellow. As one thinks or views so also he begins to act.
After vision begins the profanation of acts and profanation leads to deterioration. Misfortunes never come alone and deterioration does not singly spring forth. Its effect is just like disruption of a dam. On the removal of hindrances the polluted sewer of vices enters speedily and whatever nuisances it can spread, it does so rapidly. It so happens only then when the driver of car looses his presence of mind
All Endowed with Decisive Faculty according to Capacity: Not only in human life, but in every small or big living being, this determinative instinct remains pervaded according to its development. As much self experience that much determinative power, as much self-awakening, that much pro-development in this faculty. An animal also possesses this determinative power. An animal is five sense organed, but those beings who possess four sense organs to only one, certainly displays this decisive instinct, according to its developed state in one-sense organed vegetable life, it is perceived that a growing plant tries to protect itself from the coming adversities, by bending this way or the other or by any other means
Development of only this determinative faculty is the first question and then arises the problem of its right determination. When evolution emerges internally, then the life
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